This article focuses on two early modern English witchcraft texts, The Examination and Confession of Certaine Wytches (1566) and William Perkins’ A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft (1608) and argues that despite their differences of genre, tone and radicalness these works reveal a shared authorial agenda and persuasive strategy. The writer contends that this shared underlying intent revolves around the elevation of Protestantism and the uniting of society within specific ideological camps.

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